There was no chatting or laughing like before the game, just a simple hello.
Champions League semi-finals.
As coaches, this is the first time for Su Yun and Deschamps to enter the semi-finals of the Champions League. They have already created their own coaching history. Now, every step they take, they are creating their own history.
The personal relationship is good, but both of them want to win the game.
Compared to Deschamps, Su Yun is actually more urgent. Chelsea has already given up two domestic cup competitions this season, and in March they even gave up the Premier League.
Chelsea now only has one Champions League place left.
If Su Yun makes another mistake in the Champions League, Su Yun believes it will be difficult for him to stay at Chelsea.
Su Yun is not willing to leave Chelsea now.
Now Chelsea has almost built itself. It's time to show results. It would be nonsense if get out of class is dismissed at this time.
Therefore, Su Yun must win the Champions League this season.
Su Yun had to do the same for his own job.
"Dududu——"
With the referee's whistle, the Champions League semifinals officially began.
"Monaco kicked off first. I believe that before this Champions League, many fans were unfamiliar with Monaco."
This game was also broadcast live on CCTV.
Liu Jianhong is commentating on this game.
Actually?
Monaco is not only unfamiliar to Chinese fans, but also to football commentators like Liu Jianhong. If Monaco hadn't emerged this season, who would have cared about a team like Monaco.
Not only are they unfamiliar with the Monaco team, but they are also unfamiliar with the Principality of Monaco.
Among Chinese fans, 10% of them think Monaco is a city in France.
Because Monaco is a French Ligue 1 team.
"If we say that Monaco is most familiar with their center forward Morientes, he used to be Real Madrid's main striker, but because of the arrival of Ronaldo, he lost his position in Real Madrid. Therefore, he was loaned to Monaco."
"Morientes has performed very well in the Champions League this season. He has scored six goals so far, second only to Chelsea striker Eto'o who has scored nine goals."
Liu Jianhong doesn’t know much about Monaco.
So after the game started, I just said these innocuous words.
Otherwise, what can I say.
In fact, who doesn’t know Morientes.
Morientes also helped Real Madrid win the Champions League that year. The forward combination between him and Raul in Real Madrid was very powerful. Raul and Morientes also had a very good personal relationship.
While the major TV stations were talking about it, both Su Yun and Deschamps were standing on the sidelines watching the game.
All very cautious.
Both Chelsea and Monaco chose a cautious approach.
Chelsea did not become complacent just because they bloodbathed Real Madrid. Su Yun chose a very safe style of play in this game.
And Deschamps is even more so.
Deschamps knows Su Yun, but he dare not say that he fully understands Su Yun's preferences. Who would have thought that Su Yun would boldly press at the Bernabeu. And he also achieved success.
Bloodbathed Real Madrid with a score of 5-0.
Before that game, everyone who analyzed Chelsea thought that Chelsea would play defensive counterattack. Even Deschamps thought so. In Deschamps' view, Su Yun played defensive counterattack in his first season at Chelsea.
And the results are good.
He believes that Chelsea now has players such as Eto'o, Joaquin and Duff, who are very good at defensive counterattacks.
But Su Yun's choice was unexpected, and the effect was even more surprising.
Therefore, Deschamps could not grasp Su Yun's thoughts in this game.
Therefore, we also adopted a safe approach when it came to selection.
Therefore, after kick-off, everyone was cautious.
Everyone is testing their opponents.
"Coach Su Yun and Coach Deschamps have a very good personal relationship and are very familiar with each other. But Chelsea and Monaco are two unfamiliar teams. They have never met at all in these years."
yes.
It is really rare for Monaco and Chelsea to meet in the European arena.
Everyone was just cautious at first.
It does not mean that both sides have to choose a draw. It is impossible for Deschamps to accept a zero-0 draw, because he has not defeated his opponent at home, so isn't he looking for death in the away game?
Therefore, he hopes to win no matter what.
Su Yun is even less likely to accept a zero-to-zero draw.
Because once the score is zero to zero, as long as a goal is scored in Monaco's away game, the advantage will be too obvious. A zero to zero draw and a one to one draw are two completely different results for Chelsea.
Therefore, neither Su Yun nor Deschamps accepted zero-zero.
Soon both sides began a probing attack.
Both sides' attacks were placed on the wings.
Monaco was the first to attack, after all, this is Monaco's home ground.
"Ibarra, he gave the ball to Giuly."
Jiuli is short.
But his personal skills are extremely good, and his explosive power and speed are unparalleled. He is currently the core of Monaco's offense. Among the players that Su Yun focused on studying and guarding against before the game, Giuly was the one mentioned the most.
Giuly got the ball in the frontcourt, and Sorin immediately followed it up.
Sorin is not very good in terms of defensive skills.
But Thorin's biggest characteristic is his good physical strength and tenacious style. Therefore, when he is defending, he often relies on his brave style to stick to his opponent, and then constantly interferes.
The best thing about this is that it can constantly interfere with the opponent like a dog-skin plaster. It prevents players from passing the ball immediately and wastes the most important passing opportunity.
The bad thing is that the sense of location is too bad.
It is easy to be easily passed by some outstanding full midfielders. Especially players with strong explosiveness and fast speed. When Solin pounces, they will easily pass by with the ball.
Also, because of his poor positional sense, two opponents players can easily tear apart the defense on his side with passes.
Thorin also has a long memory, so he no longer rushes forward, but slowly leans in.
Same this time.
He slowly leaned forward and was already pressed against Jiuli.
"Jiuli. He started running."
Facing Solin, Giuli suddenly accelerated and wanted to break through from the outside. Sorin guarded the inside and prevented Giuli from getting in from the outside. But Giuli's body suddenly stopped, and then he kicked his right foot and cut directly in.
"Jiuli. Inner cut...this inward cut is beautiful, Jiuli...hey——"
"Bang--"
"Williams, Williams stole the ball from Giuly. Giuly was directly knocked away by Williams."
Just after Giuly cut inside, he wanted to pass the ball to Morientes in the penalty area. But before he could make a move, Williams rushed directly from the diagonal and snatched the ball immediately after taking the shot.
Come down.
Of course, after grabbing the ball, Giuly and Williams collided hard.
Nothing happened to Williams.
Jiuli flew out.
Giuly is only 1.6 meters tall and weighs only 62 kilograms. No matter how good Williams' physical fitness is, even if Keane and Vieira collide with Williams, they will not have the slightest advantage.
Since his debut, Williams has never been afraid of any player when it comes to physical collisions.
Compared to them, Jiuli is just a child.
It collided with Williams and flew out immediately.
The injury was not serious.
But Giuly felt like his whole body was falling apart. He raised his hand to signal that it was a foul. But the referee signaled Giuly to get up quickly.
Because Williams grabbed the ball first.
The body collision behind was just because neither Giuly nor Williams could stop.
Not a foul.
pretty!
Su Yun applauded on the sidelines.
Of course, this was the beginning. None of the Monaco players realized it, not even Deschamps. After Giuly cut inside and Williams stole the ball, he soon got another offensive opportunity.
This time he repeated his old tricks.
Another preparation for an internal cut.
But as soon as he cut inside, Sorin made a tackle and lost the ball.
Jiuli was surprised.
But Su Yun off the court was very proud. He smiled proudly.
Su Yun spent half a month analyzing all Monaco players. Giuly was analyzed the most, a player who likes to cut inside and is also very good at passing the ball.
Su Yun took out many of Jiuli's moves and analyzed them.
Including some small actions.
When does he like to pass people, pass the ball, or cut inside? And in which position is more passing, which position is more passing, and which position is more cutting.
Su Yun has calculated it all.
Of course, these are just statistics. After all, various other emergencies can occur in the game. Players are not machines, and it is impossible to completely match the statistical results.
But statistics like this can help us understand most of the characteristics of players.
He likes to cut inside.
And there are signs of cutting inside. There are also some little habits, which Su Yun has mastered. Therefore, players such as Su Yun, Solin, and Williams have seen those little habits of Giuly.
There is a complete set of methods on how to defend Jiuli.
So he cut inside twice, but Chelsea players saw through it both times.
Of course Giuly is Monaco's strongest player.
But that doesn’t mean Monaco is Giuly’s team.
When Giuly was blocked, Monaco started to play on the other side, on Roten.
Luo Teng's strength is much inferior to Jiuli.
Su Yun has great confidence in Panucci.
Although Panucci is a bit old, his explosive power and speed have dropped a lot. But Su Yun thinks it is more than enough to defend Luo Teng.
really.
Roten tried several times to use his speed and skills to get past Panucci. But he was never able to deceive Panucci. Panucci's defense is really good, and the most powerful thing is his positioning.
He was not swayed by Luo Teng's feints.
The position was very stable. Luo Teng was not given any chance at all.
Roten made several passes from the wing, but Chelsea's Lucio and Terry looked at Morientes and did not give him many opportunities.
Deschamps frowned on the sidelines.
Since the start of the Chelsea game, they haven't been attacking much. Instead, they have been defending. But the defense is very good. They know every Monaco player very well.
Deschamps looked at Su Yun who put his hands in his pockets and stood upright.
He knew that Su Yun valued the pre-match information the most.
I just didn't expect him to be able to do this. Almost Monaco's offensive routine was restricted by Su Yun.
After the two wing attacks were blocked, Monaco's offense began to change again.
"Squillac, he passed the ball to Cisse. Cisse passed it to Giuly... Giuly passed the ball back to Bernardi!"
"Bernardi. He's coming up."
This is another offensive method of Monaco.
Bernardi suddenly stepped in and then cooperated with the players in front.
This is also a routine of Monaco's attack.
"Bernardi. He... Rosicky, tackle!"
"He scooped the ball down."
Just as Bernardi came up, he lost the ball due to Rosicky's tackle.
Su Yun smiled slightly.
Su Yun knows every player of Monaco very well. What their offense is like and the characteristics of their offense. Su Yun knows it very well.
Bernardi's forward penetration was also within Su Yun's analysis.
Monaco only had a few offensive routines coming and going. After the two wings were blocked, the one who could provide offense was Bernardi.
Rosicky has been waiting for Bernardi.
When he saw Bernardi coming up, he immediately made a tackle.
"Duff. Duff got the ball."
After Duff got the ball, he immediately accelerated. He broke through directly from the center, and Cisse reacted quickly. He immediately blocked Duff's path. Duff was not as addicted to passing as Joe Cole.
After he saw Cisse, he immediately passed the ball to Lampard in front.
Lampard passed the ball to Joaquin on the right. In this series, there was no pause at all.
The opponent Joaquin faced with the ball was Evra of the same age.
Although they are the same age, their reputations are completely different. Joaquin is already well-known in European football, and even after sweeping Real Madrid, he is considered by the media to be the best right midfielder in European football.
There is no one.
Of course, there are many elements to this bragging. After all, no matter how strong Joaquín is, he is still not able to surpass Figo and the others.
As for Evra?
That is to say, it is somewhat famous in France.
But Joaquin did not underestimate Evra.
When he first arrived in the Premier League, those unknown defenders who had never heard of him were able to bully Joaquin. Not to mention the defenders, even those wingers who defended Joaquin couldn't let him go.
Therefore, although Joaquin's performance is much better now, he no longer underestimates any opponent.
The same goes for Evra this time.
Evra.
Joaquin thought of Evra's characteristics. He is a player with good explosive power and fast speed. Joaquin knew that it might not be possible to pass him just with speed. Or even if he passed, Evra could catch up.
This is not conducive to Joaquin's passing.
Fortunately, Joaquin is a player with excellent skills.
If Joaquin only understood Evra's characteristics before the game, then Evra is very familiar with Joaquin. He also knows many of Joaquin's characteristics very well.
So he was ready.
When Joaquin was about to approach Evra, he suddenly made a bicycle pedaling movement.
When this action came out, many people were stunned.
Even Su Yun was stunned.
The action of pedaling a bicycle is generally used by Brazilian players. Especially Denilson, who only knows how to play with skills every day. Ronaldo and Ronaldinho are all masters of cycling. Of course, many Portuguese players also use this action. But Spain
Players rarely use it, or in other words, few of them use this action.
Same goes for Joaquín.
Even during normal training, Su Yun had never seen Joaquin riding a bicycle.
Su Yun was surprised.
Needless to say, Evra was shocked.
Because in Evra's impression, Joaquin's movements are all simple and unpretentious. There are basically two ways of passing him.
One way is to rely on explosive power and speed to quickly pass people by passing the ball. Another way is to rely on spiking the ball non-stop. The action is very simple, but the passing is very effective.
Joaquin never mentioned using any gorgeous extraordinary moves.
So when Joaquin suddenly used the action of pedaling a bicycle, it really shook Evra. Joaquin's bicycle pedal was very simple, just two simple clicks. After two clicks, Joaquin used his right foot to move the ball to the right.
Dial, and then suddenly rushed past Evra.
Evra was left stunned.
"Joaquin. Joaquin... was riding the bicycle beautifully. He had already passed Evra. He broke in."
"Joaquin, pass the ball...the ball was passed a little behind."
Eto'o and Joaquin had a bad idea.
Joaquin thought that Eto'o would suddenly stay behind like he did when playing against Real Madrid. That would be a beautiful inverted triangle. So he passed the ball to a deeper position, and Eto'o thought that Joaquin would
Pass the ball forward.
Therefore, after Joaquin passed the ball, Eto'o found that the ball had deviated.
The ball is behind you.
Therefore, he could only stop suddenly, and then received the ball from Joaquin with Squillaci behind him.
"Eto'o, Squillac is already in position...Eto'o, pass the ball!"
After Eto'o stopped the ball, he already missed the best chance to score. Because Squillaci and Rodriguez were already in position. Eto'o really couldn't turn around.
But Eto'o suddenly passed the ball gently to the right. Lampard, who had just competed with Zicos for position, suddenly had to meet Eto'o from the left.
Zicos immediately blocked the left wing.
But Lampard just made a shake, and when he saw Zicos moving, he immediately ran to the right. This ability to run without the ball is unique to Lampard in European football.
Just in time to complete a beautiful passing movement with Eto'o.
"Lampard! Lampard! She door!!!!!!!!!!"
"goooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"One to zero! One to zero! One to zero!"
"Chelsea led Monaco in the away game with Frank Lampard's goal. They got an away goal, an away goal. This goal may become the most important goal for Chelsea to enter the Champions League final."
"Lampard, Lampard! Coach Su Yun's midfielder's scoring rate has always been very high. Previously at Chelsea, Williams was the midfielder with the highest scoring rate, but as Williams began to play
With a single defensive midfielder, the responsibility of scoring goals in Chelsea's midfield is now in Lampard's hands."
"Lampard has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season and is currently Chelsea's second striker."
